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安德烈·瓦西里耶維奇·塔蘭 (，）是烏克蘭軍事領導人和政治家。第16任烏克蘭國防部部長。亦是烏克蘭武裝部隊退役中將。

早期生活和教育 

Andriy Vasylyovych Taran was born 4 March 1955 in the East Germanу city of Frankfurt an der Oder to a military family serving in the Soviet Army's Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. In the 1970s, he graduated from the Kyiv Higher Engineer School of Artillery (now the Ivan Chernyakhovsky National Defence University of Ukraine) specializing in military radio engineering. In the 1980s he graduated from the Air Defence Army Academy in Kyiv with a major in combat management. He also underwent studies at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and the National Defence University in Washington. He is fluent in the English and Russian languages as second languages.

軍事外交 

In the early 90s, he served in the central office of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and then went to the Chief Directorate of Intelligence. He worked at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine as an expert in the Centre for Strategic Planning and Analysis, then returned to the central office of the Ministry of Defence in 1996. After leaving the Defence Ministry in 1999, he became a military attaché at the Embassy of Ukraine, Washington, D.C. From 2008, he was the Deputy Head of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine. For five months ending in April 2016, he was the First Deputy Commander of the Armed Forces. In 2016, he retired at the age of 61 due to his age, holding the rank of lieutenant general. From September to November 2015, he worked in the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine.

政治活動 

In 2019, he headed the election headquarters of presidential candidate and former Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Ihor Smeshko. In the 2019 parliamentary elections, he ran for parliament with Smeshko's Strength and Honour party. But in the election the party won 3.82% of the votes, not enough to clear the 5% election threshold and it thus gained no parliamentary seats.

國防部長 

On his 65th birthday in 2020, he was personally appointed to the post of Minister of Defence by President Volodymyr Zelensky, serving in the Shmyhal Government. His appointment was backed by 285 MPs in the Verkhovna Rada.

He has been a member of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine since 13 March 2020.

On 14 December 2020, for the first time in the history of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, Taran signed several direct contracts with Turkish companies on technology transfer and production of corvettes and combat UAVs for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

On 3 November 2021 Taran was dismissed as minister.

獎項 

Является кавалером II и III степеней

參考文獻 

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乌克兰国防部长
乌克兰俄乌战争人物
烏克蘭中將
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21世紀烏克蘭男性政治人物
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